Fight antibiotic resistance - it's in your hands - SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands 5 May 2017 - spread the word!
Fight antibiotic resistance - it's in your hands - SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands 5 May 2017
WHO urges you to focus on the fight against antibiotic resistance in the context of hand hygiene and infection prevention and control (IPC) programmes. You can do this by supporting the 5 May 2017 calls to action. Hand hygiene is at the core of effective IPC to combat antibiotic resistance, and campaigning each year on or around 5 May is one important part of improving behaviour towards IPC best practices. This year the campaign materials are all co-branded with ‘Antibiotics, handle with care’ to demonstrate unity between antimicrobial resistance and IPC efforts.
Resources for 5 May 2017
- A short advocacy slide set (http://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/5May2017_advocacy-slides.pdf?ua=1) and http://www.who.int/gpsc/5may_advocacy-toolkit.pdf
- A monthly newsletter providing you with updates and advocacy wording you can disseminate in your area.( http://www.who.int/gpsc/news/en/
- SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands newsletter
- Posters targeting those we want action to be taken by:
- Advocacy http://www.who.int/entity/gpsc/5may/Poster2017.pdf?ua=1
- Hospital CEOs and Administrators http://www.who.int/entity/gpsc/5may/poster-ceo.pdf?ua=1
- Health workers http://www.who.int/entity/gpsc/5may/poster-hworker.pdf?ua=1
- IPC Leaders http://www.who.int/entity/gpsc/5may/poster-ipcleads.pdf?ua=1
- Policy makers http://www.who.int/entity/gpsc/5may/poster-policymaker.pdf?ua=1
- An engagement/activity tool for IPC leads. http://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/ipcleads-activities_2017.pdf?ua=1
For social media messaging, WHO will be using both #handhygiene and #antibioticresistance – remember to join the conversation on 5 May.
WHO tools supporting this campaign efforts:
- Core components of infection prevention and control programmes at the national and acute health care facility level (http://www.who.int/entity/gpsc/ipc-components/en/index.html)
- My 5 Moments for Hand Hygiene posters focused on the importance of prevention spread of MDROs http://www.who.int/entity/gpsc/5may/5moments-posters/en/index.html
- Infographic: Hand hygiene and the surgical patient journey: http://www.who.int/entity/gpsc/5may/hh_infographic_A4_EN.pdf?ua=1
- Focus on caring for a patient with a post-operative wound: http://www.who.int/entity/gpsc/5may/5moments-EducationalPoster.pdf?ua=1
- Focus on caring for a patient with a central venous catheter: http://www.who.int/entity/gpsc/5may/HH15_CentralCatheter_WEB_EN.pdf?ua=1
- Focus on caring for a patient with a peripheral venous catheter: http://www.who.int/entity/gpsc/5may/HH15_PeripheralCatheter_WEB_EN.pdf?ua=1
- Focus on caring for a patient with an endotracheal tube: http://www.who.int/entity/gpsc/5may/HH15_Endotracheal_WEB_EN.pdf?ua=1
- Focus on caring for a patient with a urinary catheter http://www.who.int/entity/gpsc/5may/hh-urinary-catheter_poster.pdf?ua=1
- Posters featuring the importance of Moment 5 for Hand Hygiene linked to environment contamination by MDROs: http://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/5moments-posters/en/
- A literature review of multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) and their relationship with hand hygiene http://www.who.int/entity/gpsc/5may/MDRO_literature-review.pdf?ua=1
Recommendations for surgical site infection prevention, which include appropriate surgical antibiotic prophylaxis prescribing http://www.who.int/entity/gpsc/ssi-guidelines/en/index.html